I have just purchased a new WD 650GB hard drive and want to use this as my windows drive. I have two WD 250 GB harddrives in the computer at the moment. One is a windows drive the other is used to take images of that windows drive. I use the program Acronis to do my backups and want to restore this image to my new 650 GB hard drive. I have read somewhere that i do not have to reinstall my OS to the new hard drive and that i can just somehow copy the image over to the new drive. Can anyone here please tell me how i do this. Thanks!!I take it that nobody, including me, knows anything about this program then?You can just copy the image, yes.
Start up Acronis and choose "Restore image" (I think that's it, not sure what version you're on and I haven't used it in a while), then just restore one of your created images to the new drive.
If you don't have a current image you can clone your 250GB drive to the new one, but you may need to create the Acronis bootable CD to do that, I'm not sure.
Hope this helps a little, sorry it's so vague but I really haven't used Acronis in a long time.Did you create an Acronis bootable CD > >
If so you simply BOOT to the CD RUN Acronis and choose the target drive ( the one you want to image to ) and then find the appropiate .tib FILE....select restore and let it run.
Disconnect all drives except the one you just imaged and boot to it to make sure everything is working.

Which ver. of Acronis is this ? ?Thanks for the help guys! I did what you said and all is working ok now. Good News !

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